Barbara Kingsolver on Sustainable Food

Barbara Kingsolver speaks about sustainable food and her new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in this interview from MORE magazine.

By Rebecca Barry

Kingsolver and family

Kingsolver: [Laughs] My parents, on the other hand, knew nothing when I was 19, and now they’re so smart. So that happens. But the real earthquake for me was becoming a mother. Of course, I care about other people’s children, and I think I would be an environmentalist even if I didn’t have kids. But before I was a mother, saving the world was an abstraction, and suddenly I knew exactly whom I was saving it for.